| Playoff passes | 14 |
| Playoff part | 12 |
| Playoff locales | 15 |
| Playoff game settler, perhaps | 29 |
| Playoff disappointment | 22 |
| Playoff coups | 13 |
| Playoff breathers | 17 |
| Playoff boon for the 49ers? | 27 |
| Playmobile | 10 |
| Playmates? | 10 |
| Playmates in a primer | 21 |
| Playmates for Poms, perhaps | 27 |
| Playmates for Poms | 18 |
| Playmate who m. an oil mogul | 28 |
| Playmate of Tinky Winky, Dipsy and Po | 37 |
| Playmate of Spot | 16 |
| Playmate of Po | 14 |
| Playmate of Piglet | 18 |
| Playmate of bro. | 16 |
| Playmate for the lonely | 23 |
| Playmate for Spot | 17 |
| Playmate | 8 |
| Playmaking group | 16 |
| Playmakers? | 11 |
| Playmaker, metaphorically | 25 |
| Playlist player | 15 |
| Playlist category | 17 |
| Playlets | 8 |
| Playlet | 7 |
| Playless? | 9 |
| Playing-time link | 17 |
| Playing-it-safe quality | 23 |
| Playing-fields school | 21 |
| Playing-card units: Abbr. | 25 |
| Playing-card spots | 18 |
| Playing-card spot | 17 |
| Playing-card package | 20 |
| Playing-card pack | 17 |
| Playing-card combo | 18 |
| Playing ___ (field) | 19 |
| Playing ___ (court activity) | 28 |
| Playing with the bow bouncing lightly off the strings | 53 |
| Playing with dolls | 18 |
| Playing with bubble wrap | 24 |
| Playing with a full deck | 24 |
| Playing will a full deck, so to speak | 37 |
| Playing will a full deck | 24 |
| Playing video games, say | 24 |
| Playing various venues | 22 |
| Playing unusually well | 22 |
| Playing two cellos at once, maybe? | 34 |
| Playing to someone's vanity, maybe | 38 |
| Playing the ___ (improvised verbal contest) | 43 |
| Playing the tourist | 19 |
| Playing the toady | 17 |
| Playing the country | 19 |
| Playing surface with 24 points | 30 |
| Playing surface for World Cup participants | 42 |
| Playing surface | 15 |
| Playing speeds | 14 |
| Playing shuffleboard, perhaps | 29 |
| Playing second fiddle | 21 |
| Playing regularly, perhaps, as on a school athletic team | 56 |
| Playing place | 13 |
| Playing pieces in the game of Go | 32 |
| Playing pieces | 14 |
| Playing piece? | 14 |
| Playing piece for Fischer | 25 |
| Playing piece | 13 |
| Playing pace | 12 |
| Playing out? | 12 |
| Playing out all one's cards? | 32 |
| Playing one's part | 22 |
| Playing on the road | 19 |
| Playing notes on certain musical instruments | 44 |
| Playing not very hard-to-get | 28 |
| Playing nine, say | 17 |
| Playing military hooky | 22 |
| Playing marbles | 15 |
| Playing marble with bands | 25 |
| Playing marble | 14 |
| Playing many venues | 19 |
| Playing loudly, like a group of trumpets | 40 |
| Playing loudly | 14 |
| Playing longer than expected, for short | 39 |
| Playing like Pan | 16 |
| Playing it safe | 15 |
| Playing in someone else's stadium | 37 |
| Playing hooky, militarily | 25 |
| Playing hooky, maybe: Abbr. | 27 |
| Playing hooky, in a way | 23 |
| Playing hooky, e.g. | 19 |
| Playing hooky | 13 |
| Playing hard-to-get | 19 |
| Playing hard ___ | 16 |
| Playing hard to get | 19 |
| Playing golf | 12 |
| Playing games, so to speak | 26 |
| Playing form | 12 |
| Playing for time | 16 |